Amélie

Synopsis

One person can change your life forever.

At a tiny Parisian café, the adorable yet painfully shy Amélie (Audrey Tautou) accidentally discovers a gift for helping others. Soon Amelie is spending her days as a matchmaker, guardian angel, and all-around do-gooder. But when she bumps into a handsome stranger, will she find the courage to become the star of her very own love story?

Genres

someone: hello- me: on september 3, 1973, a blue fly capable of flapping 70 beats a minute landed on st. vincent street in montmartre. at that moment, on a restaurant terrace nearby, the wind magically made two glasses dance unseen on a tablecloth. meanwhile, the someone: wait, how did you get that accordion?

My name is Adam Cook and I’m a hopeless romantic. I’ve tried to hide it and keep it a secret but the truth is that there’s nothing better than getting swept away in a romance and cinema is the best medium for capturing that intoxicating feeling. From the grand gesture of A Matter of Life and Death to the tentative delights of Before Sunrise, film has captured love in its many shapes and sizes.

One of the finest love stories this century is Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s Parisian fairy tale, Amelie. It possesses so many elements that I would normally hate - the quirky characters, sugary-sweet whimsy and soppy protagonist - but I fall under its spell each and every time I…

One of the most adorable, original & sweetest films ever made, Amélie (also known as Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain) is a beautifully crafted, exquisitely narrated & gorgeously rendered tale about the simple things in life that usually are far more valuable than we deem it to be and throughout its runtime, all it attempts to do is to make us pause & admire those small wonders that abound around us at all times.

Presenting its peculiar story with irresistible charm & incomparable wonderment, Amélie is a celebration of life that is captured in such an inventive manner that every single frame of it is an aesthetic work of art & passion and with its insanely magical blend of all aspects, the film also triumphs…

I would fall in love with Nino too... Ultimately this movie is a character study, not just Amelie but in characters in general. And character has always been the most important in film for me. Maybe because it’s the realest or because it’s the most interesting or just because I’m human. But I loved this movie, and I didn’t expect to cry at a movie that made so, extremely, truly happy. I think the last moment I cried at before this was Her or maybe Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, so my reaction to this film was a pleasant surprise.

Amélie is an absolutely stunning film, everything from the cinematography and colour to the performance and music is incredible. It is the type of movie that brings out the hopeless romantic and kind nature in anyone. There is just such a sense of how good humans can be, and how much effect it has on others.

I wanted to watch this movie for so long, I could finally see it tonight. It was nice, if I had seen it years ago, it would probably be one of my favorites, but now all I can say is that it's "nice". I liked the odd atmosphere, but I felt that they tried too hard to be weird.

Alright, I’m ready to be murdered for this take, but here it is: I don’t like this movie. At. All.

Now, hear me out before grabbing your pitchforks and torches. Amélie is a film that tries to pass visuality and quirkiness for good filmmaking.

It’s easiest to say it this way: I hate Amélie because it has inspired literally every bad student film I ever saw in my time in film school. From the heavy-handed narration, to the kinetic editing, to the oversaturated cinematography, every single aspect of this film has been completely wrung dry by wannabe filmmakers. From the first few moments of this film, I knew I would be in trouble. The film immediately dives into some tremendously…